Updated: So, after I finally gave up on the neo-con, we will call him Twit, over at Newsvine after he basically did not admit to anything and wanted me to go away and not bother him with reality. I started to surf around and found another article that Twit seeded/linked to containing, guess who, Ann Coutler. Now she is hating on Global Warming environmentalists. This chick was basically just making stuff up again to support her conservative ideology.

What I found funny is there were about 5 other people commenting on his thread with the same complaint on how their comments were treated by Twit that I was frustrated about. He was doing the same thing to every single person that either countered him or falsified his article — ignoring them or plain out flaming them with hate. But, it wasn’t just him it was many other conservatives just hating away as the liberals were trying to debate with real facts and science. There was about 150 comments and no one got anywhere. The final comment was Twit saying, “Well, if you don’t like it… go somewhere else!” Which is fine, and we are in a free country, but how are we to get anything done if we never interact with the other party?

I will ask again… what are we to do about this extremism? I am so flabbergasted with the amount of blind hate, it just reminds me of the extreme fundamentalists that HATE contrarian religions. You can never win with them, ever.
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This is not an article per se, but more of a communication between all of you out there, and me. This is more of a ranting, if you will, about the adventures of my political awareness project. What I have noticed about life and especially politics is that liberals and conservatives stay in respective corners with little to no interaction. Liberals don’t step up because it is impossible to talk with a conservative, and conservatives don’t debate because they don’t believe in it. My political awareness project is forcing the two parties to debate. Well, maybe it is just me and the neo-cons, but still, I am out there trying to force a little reality down their little neo-con throats.

While I was perusing Newsvine as I always do, I ran across a sarcastic article posted by a staunch conservative that was titled “In Washington, It’s Always the Year of the Rat” written by who else, but Ann Coulter. It was really bad, and I mean really bad. The whole article was based off of lies, fiction, hate and pure spin. There was not one drop of substance. So, I called the guy out who posted the article. What resulted in me calling the guy out is what made me realize why I hate… well, dislike Republicans. Let me explain what happened between him and me — hmm, all of the conservatives on Newsvine.

Here is what I said in response to the verbal diarrhea that Ann Coulter is so pathetically famous for:

I was going to write something about this, but… oh, forget it. This blame game is going to be in existence until we all grow up and learn to be civil. Until we can rise above all the elementary, immature behavior, this non-sense will continue. America’s partisan population divided by an ideological wall of BS will poison any chance of positive change in our world.

This is not far from, “Superman is way tougher than Batman… No way dude, Batman could kick Superman’s butt any day! You shut up! No, you shut up!” I think Republicans and Democrats are both… well, you get the idea.

This was my attempt to create a real discussion between the two oppositions. The end result is these guys started actually arguing over who would kick who’s ass — Superman or Batman. Well, of course I am not going down like that, so I pressed on, but that is what conservatives do. They try to stifle debates, use slight of hand, smoke and mirrors, block investigations and ignore real objective information, basically using anything that will keep them from having to actually debate… oh, the horror! I left one last comment and that stopped the thread, no one came back to answer me.

Is politics just getting worse, or am I just more perceptive now that politics has become a life or death situation? There are so many examples of how conservatives can’t debate, and that they have nothing to say. I have countered many conservative comments and I get nothing in return. It almost seems as though as soon as I show up, nobody comes back to reply. Why have I not had one good debate with a conservative? Is it that they are not good at debating, not knowledgeable, afraid of confrontation? I don’t believe it is any of these.

I believe it is the fact that they have this “knowing” that they are RIGHT, and in every sense of the word. They truly believe that they are the chosen ones, the real Americans, and are completely righteous. I was told by one that he was not interested in bringing conservatives and liberals together, and that he wants the Democrat party extinguished. They want the conservatives to completely rule the nation 100% with no opposition. It is identical to how the radical religious feel towards Atheists or some other opposing belief.

I have seen so many articles that are nearly completely fabricated to support their ideology like the existence of God, and don’t even get me started with the whole Global Warming issue. They actually think that the “environmentalists” have created this concept of humans influencing the climate change to make billions of dollars from it. What?! I comment back with empirical evidence backed up with the scientific method to explain how we are having a significant effect on this warming. They then completely ignore what I wrote and argue something ridiculous with someone else. It is almost as though my comment did not even register with the group. If you are interested here is what I always write concerning this issue:

The belief that we have nothing to do with global warming is absolutely preposterous. I am always going back to this simple fact for people, and I have no clue why no one will admit this…

All of the world’s life forms respiring carbon dioxide is part of a closed system. There can be no net addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere because the amount of carbon dioxide we exhale can’t be greater than the carbon we put into our bodies by eating plants, or eating animals that eat plants. The plants got the carbon from the atmosphere via photosynthesis.

**The reason why burning fossil fuels is a concern is because it is not a closed loop over human time scales. Extracting coal and oil and burning them puts carbon back into the atmosphere that plants removed millions of years ago.**

With this being said, how can we say we are not contributing to this global warming? The next simple fact is that CO2 levels are higher than they have been for the past 400,000 years. See this image!

The reason for this is the closed system. We have released CO2 into the atmosphere that has not been here for millions of years. If we would have never burned fossil fuels, yes, we would still have cycles of global warming with cooling, but we have now introduced a variable (the extra CO2) that has never been there before. So, to say that the earth is just going through its own cycles, and we have nothing to do with it is very dangerous.

Bottom line… WE are contributing!

I have not yet had someone reply to this or even admit that I may be right. I guess the reason for this article is to make the sane, intelligent people of America realize what we are up against. We are fighting against a political ideology that will never be objective, never succumb to reality and never allow fairness and equality. They don’t want us in “their” country. Period! We are the dark side, the Devil that needs to be conquered and annihilated.

So, what do we do about it? How do you even debate with this? How is this country going to heal? As a matter of fact, how is the earth going to heal?

Did you guys see the Al Gore testimony with that neo-con Sen. James Imhoff? I wonder what party he belongs to? Hmmm, oh, Republican! If you missed it here is a clip of Al Gore with James Imhoff. Notice how Imhoff is not only disrespectful and insulting to Gore but he will not address him as Vice President Gore. He calls him Senator Gore. This is also the same James Imhoff, who said he was “outraged” over the criticism of the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, since the abused were enemies of the U.S.

Here is another video of the testimony coupled with a comparison to Bill O’Reilly.

Someone please help me understand what we can to about this.